"Electronic Arts will be 'totally digitally-focused' in the future, moving away from the traditional packaged goods model to embrace digital distribution in a bid to avoid becoming 'another music industry'."
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
Certainly not with their pathetic online service
I'm guessing that fans of a certain console will call for the boycott of EA over that statement.
Even though I hate the thought of it, I have a feeling that the industry will end up doing this. However, I highly doubt it will be in the next 3-5 years, I'm thinking 10 years time at the earliest.
I want my game boxes to have on my shelf!
...don't want to have to go online with every game I purchase. I also would prefer to not have large games that are download only.
I've been a pc gamer for longer then I've been a PS360 gamer and I honestly think as time progresses console developers will use online and DLC with more frequency. Duh! Likewise, it will give developers the fiscal reasons why they can distribute poorer quality games for greater profit.
Why release crap games you say?! Because they can just patch the problems later to get it into the hands of consumers now so that they get your money. Why result to patching problems, shouldn't developers just wait to release the product when it's ready? Hell nah!! That cost too much. So why does every game have to have online content associated with it? Also will games with offline content be considered old or antiquated? I'm glad you asked that question, well all games need online content so we can eventually finish and polish the game which we should finished before we shipped it. And lastly because everyone is online...aren't they?